时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2006


英语课

1. Fires raging near the Palm Springs area are now to blame for the deaths of four firefighters, another is in critical condition. They were battling the blaze which is sweeping 1 through parts of southern California. Hundreds of people have been driven from the area and at least three homes have been severely 2 damaged.

2. One day after President Bush answered questions about the ongoing 3 war in Iraq, Defense 4 Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday that critics should "just back off" and stop demanding specific deadlines for progress in Iraq.

3. An unmanned Russian supply ship has now docked securely with the International Space Station following an earlier unsuccessful attempt. NASA officials say the vessel 5 was bringing needed supplies to the crew living in space.

4. A powerful snowstorm dumped a foot and a half of snow in parts of the Colorado mountains. Thursday traffic in much of the area was brought to a halt and many schools were closed. The National Weather Service said snow was falling at a rate of about 3 inches an hour.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. back off: phrase
If you tell someone to back off, you are telling them to stop interfering 6. (INFORMAL)



adj.范围广大的,一扫无遗的
  • The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
  • Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗?
adv.严格地;严厉地;非常恶劣地
  • He was severely criticized and removed from his post.他受到了严厉的批评并且被撤了职。
  • He is severely put down for his careless work.他因工作上的粗心大意而受到了严厉的批评。
adj.进行中的,前进的
  • The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
  • The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
n.船舶;容器,器皿;管,导管,血管
  • The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.这艘船满载货物驶往上海。
  • You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。
学英语单词
acera
ADACC
antitubercular agent
APRS (automatic production record system)
balance lug
ball cage
banks is.
baryta coated paper
begartered
benzer
bhattacharya
bill of lading freight
bloemspruits
boring machines
breckon
carbon dioxide refrigerating machine
churchill downss
cleaning cell
Cnephia
common mode input
convergency of symptom
country rock alteration
cut price offer
cystoscopic(examination)
D and D
Dahomey
decentralization of purchasing
delitos
dicolic
digestibleness
double head latch needle
Dover Castle
electronic time relay
facia
fern allies
flat iron
fleet streets
fraternal birth order effect
galumphing
gear driven pump
gross line
hughied
hybrid vigour
hydrated electron dosimetry
ICAM Definition Method
individual study
infeoffment
insulated value
justificatory
Kanniyakumari
knokke (knocke)
kokodo
largeend
lead by the nose
mallenders and sallenders
measure of area
method of reverse osmosis
Mohawk Valley
multi-drum winch
Nefretete
normal activity
onie
ozerov
panic grasses
parity drive
persevere in
platen
positive conditioned stimuli
pressure calibration
progressive wave motion
prolonge
pulse-free signal
quadrature hybrid
radiation measurement assembly
Radix motoria
read noise
red-graier
redioimmunoelectrophoresis
relay characteristics
rest-home
rototranslational
Salix opsimantha
scan image
scaningmgcroscop
screen-gri
scroll sheet liner
seable
sennin
spanne
strongly monotonic function
subsistence theory of wages
Sunipia bicolor
surrebutted
tea makers
Tenebrionoidea
thermometer correction
time fuse
travers-tile
tropical plant
undergeneralizing
working fluid heater efficiency
xylota formosana